New submission from Magnien Sebastien :
The documentation reads :
" The backslash (\) character is used to escape characters that otherwise have
a special meaning, such as newline, backslash itself, or the quote character. "
However, 'n' does not "otherwise have a special meaning", nor does it represent
a new line.
The backslash character does in fact do two different things :
1) It removes special meanings from characters that have one (\\).
2) It assigns a special meaning to normal characters (\n).
A better description would therefore be :
" The backslash (\) character is used to either escape characters that have a
special meaning, such as backslash itself, or the quote character - or give
special meaning to characters that do not have one, such as 'n', whose
escapment '\n' means 'newline'. "
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 335205
nosy: Magnien Sebastien, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Slight error in words in [ 2.4.1. String and Bytes literals ]
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.7
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